All of my life
I have been a person who never was satisfied with just
reading or hearing about the things of God---I wanted to
experience them for myself. Raised in a very nominal
and traditional church, there was little talk of that
possibility ever happening. Everything ceased with the
passing of the first century apostles. No miracles, no
visions, no angelic visitations could be expected for those
of us living now. We had little more to do than
collect the money to put up a building, buy the pews, the
piano, the organ, pay a preacher to preach us a 20 minute
sermon each Sunday. Every once in awhile we took up a
missionary offering and got very "ecumenical"
by allowing the "colored people" to come visit
us--provided they sat on the back pews. Salvation
consisted of reaching puberty, "joining the church" on
Easter Sunday and getting baptized in the church water
tank to "wash away our sins". That was it.

Unfortunately,
for the great majority of Christians, that is still
"it".

I think of
Gideon. He was a good, religious Jewish young
man. A Jew. But he wondered in himself, "where
be the miracles our fathers told us about?".

What a
dangerous thought to enter into the heart of any of
us! It is the sign of a restlessness, an unsatisfied
hunger for reality! And why is it dangerous?
BECAUSE IT IS THE VERY THING GOD WANTS IN EACH OF US!
AND IT WILL CHANGE OUR VERY LIVES! Without this
hunger, this curiosity, this desire, you and I can
only gnaw on dead men's bones!

I read of the
exploits of Elijah and Elisha. But both are
gone. Moses pointed his staff and a great sea split in
two...but Moses is gone. I read of Joseph and his
dreams, but Joseph is long gone. I read how through
all those many centuries, angels visited Abraham, Lot, gave
visions and dreams, miraculous events became the history of
the Jewish people. Then Jesus came and apostles were
anointed with His Spirit and thousands upon thousands were
drawn to God. Since that event, His church has truly
covered the earth "not by might, not by power, but BY HIS
SPIRIT".

I have
been priviledged to have spent the last 25 years doing
just that. Many times I wondered how it might be
accomplished. In remote China where we carried Bibles,
tracts, and even comic books in Mandarin to tell the gospel
story. When the authorities discovered us, we
escaped--hiding ourselves in filthy hotels, cold and without
bathrooms except for the hog trough out the back door. We
slept under sheepskins. But God was with us! We
prayed and asked God to tell us what we were to do, as we
still had many Bibles and tracts still with us. I can
never forget what question He asked me: "How did I preserve
Moses?" Of course, I replied with the answer, "put him
in a little reed basket and floated him down the river"."Then do that to My
"moses". I didn't understand until we passed a village
store with some plastic jugs, and we bought several and
stuffed them with the Bibles and tracts. And each
little village we passed, we placed a "Moses" on the streams
going into each of them. Authorities stopped us along
to roadways, but did not discover our precious cargo nor
what we were floating down the streams.

God has always
watched over His Word. And I can truthfully say that this
Gospel has been preached into all the world. I was told that
in one of the remotest parts of the Himalayians, some
Christians put the Gospel into baloons filled with helium
and launched them to float over the
mountains! Hallelujah!

Now to the
reason I am writing this to our beloved Doves: I thank
God that there is a place where we can share with one
another and draw from the Spirit of God what He is doing
thoughout the world! We are so blessed that we have
this wonderful family whose zeal and purpose is to be
prepared for His soon coming. We've studied many
things together, shared our dreams and visions---as God
planned from the beginning.

Now I
have an exciting thing to share with you all concerning the
rapture that is about to happen. About 3 weeks ago a
man in our church was talking with me and shared a vision he
had had that week. He is a farmer, and as he was
looking down over his fields, suddenly he saw a huge
black horse come racing up to him. On the horse
was a man with a black cape. He stopped
momentarily, stared at the farmer, then turned away
and raced off, the horse's hoofs pounding the
ground. He said nothing.

When he told me
this, I thought about the 4 horses of the apocalypse and
began to read about it in the bible. The black horse
is said to represent famine, but in the scriptures it
mentions a scale, and the rider of the horse talks about the
price of food being so expensive that people could not
afford to buy enough to eat.

I then went to
the teaching on this subject by Dr.Owuor (who has been
mentioned in 5 Doves as a prophet in Africa). It
is a very long discourse, but he touches on what God showed
him in a vision, that there would be horrible famines as the
black horse races to the 4 corners of the earth. But
the rider on the horse said not to touch "the oil and the
wine".

I remember that
the good Samaritan poured on oil and wine into the the
wounded man for healing. Owuor says that this oil and
wine is representative of the Holy
Spirit which will bind together the bride of
Christ to get us prepared for the great wedding to soon take
place at the rapture of His church.

I thought to
myself, what kind of famine? Food, of course.
But also the Bible speaks of a famine for the Word of God,
that in the last days men would go from place to place
seeking for it. Don't many of us eagerly await in
anticipation of what is on 5 Doves when we log onto our
computers?

Just today I
read where the earthquake that destroyed Japan's nuclear
plants is releasing radiation at unheard of levels and that
millions of people (even here in the United States) are
being contaminated. This includes our food chain.
Would the famine spoken about by the man on the black horse
be possibly brought about by this terrible disaster?
It might be. For even if there was food and plenty of
it, would anyone buy it if it contained radiation?
What, then, are people to eat?

I believe
this: We are being told to prepare ourselves
spiritually for the days ahead. The BIble plainly says
that if we eat any deadly thing, it will not hurt us.
But that only applies to us as we walk and live in
the power of His Holy Spirit.

Perhaps
we might soon anticipate a great spiritual awakening as the
world around us gets desperate enough to turn to the Living
God before our long-awaited Meeting in the Air.